Continuity mistake: When the pool hustler, Jason Alexander, lights his cigarette, the match goes out before it touches the cigarette yet he still takes a drag as if it were lit.
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
1 continuity mistake
Directed by: Gene Saks
Starring: Blythe Danner, Jonathan Silverman, Stacey Glick, Lisa Waltz
Genres: Comedy
Continuity mistake: When the pool hustler, Jason Alexander, lights his cigarette, the match goes out before it touches the cigarette yet he still takes a drag as if it were lit.
Stanley: I got fired today.
Eugene: Fired? You mean for good?
Stanley: You don't get fired temporarily. It's a permanent lifetime firing.
Trivia: The main character, Eugene Morris Jerome, is also the main character's name in Biloxi Blues. Both characters also keep journals of their everyday lives.